The Dell Latitude E4300 I am typing this on concurs. And cost around $80 on ebay a year ago.

Because they have other skill-sets or experience you lack, at least if they were properly promoted.

A boss who doesn't know how to do your job but who trusts you when you say what you can or can't do or has an understanding of what you can or can't do can still be your boss in a useful way. If you're running a sports stadium, you don't have to know how to drive the Zamboni or run the concession stand, you have to know how to interface with the people responsible for them, as well as with the owners, etc...

Populism works by incentivizing politicians to do PR stunts drawing attention to issues people care about. This PR Stunt is much more important than 90% of Senate Business anyway.

Were they felonies where you confessed guilt or that were fairly routine? 100K might be a bit inflated, but not necessarily if you were to go all the way to trial... you have civil discovery costs on both sides and over 4000 photos, plus electronics experts on posting, plus the cost of motion practice, plus trial time, plus appeals. It really depends who you get to do the case, but it could certainly go to $30K pretty easily, and $100K under certain circumstances.

That being said, it's likely 5K before settlement.

It's not punishment for the kid. At the most it's punishment for the parent that makes a good parent make the kid see sense.

I got detention once in high school and it was just ridiculous. They didn't make you *do* anything, you just hung out in the Cafeteria for a few minutes and could read or do your work or whatever you wanted. They should have been at least making us mop up or something.

You are aware that perhaps a majority of nonprofits are shams designed to pull money out as salary and the like, right?

This. It seems really stupid to think that these shows will lead someone down those roads--notably, if these shows will, so will almost anything. But sometimes people are really, really stupid. See, e.g.: anti-vaxxer movement. There probably actually *should* be a government conspiracy to silent the anti-vaxxer movement because it presents a serious threat to public health.

We could call the conspiracy the "NIH" and ask it to do "peer-reviewed research." :)

But a good propaganda machine designed to promote research over stupid ideas that threaten public safety, scary as it is, might actually be called for on occasion... be a bit transparent about it, but still.

I have a vague recollection of reading about an acoustic attack to get around airgapping, but don't remember if it was theoretical at the time.

In college a friend of mine implemented "TCP Over Voice" for a project in his operating systems course. Another friend who had perfect pitch sang a dollar sign to the computer...

This is Security 101 stuff... as in, you read a good book on security and you know simple header changes should never be enough to reveal data of another customer. IIRC David LeBlanc's book mentioned a story where he pointed out the problem for a bank once...

Fundamentally security for most companies is still a "don't invest unless we get caught not investing" type of expense. Like landlords who don't worry about providing... electricity...

The solution to these things is to kill or diminish the power of putin. The Space Arms race is different.

Of course major powers all have satellite killers. Nobody in their right mind wants to use them because they make space unusable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But if there's a way between major powers, the world is pretty much fucked anyway.

Not necessarily. Admissions as a practical matter are often done in a whole-person type way which is nevertheless guided *Strongly* by what the people involved think the ideal class should look like demographically, including race.

Think of this as a function of time. Probably a lot cheaper to have a network of people able to service big rigs available throughout the country on short notice than to pay them to sit in the truck all day, except where the cost of a delay exceeds a certain threshold--i.e. the cost of paying to have a mechanic sit in the self-driving truck adjusted by the probability of it breaking down.

In NJ, you aren't allowed to pump your own gas so that you will keep the guy who pumps it employed. They *could* have employed him dong something useful--thing TVA-type programs where he's doing a job to improve the environment, for example--but this is what they picked. There will be pushback against automated trucks in a similar fashion, although of course they're so much more proficient that they will prevail in the end.

There are a lot of trucks where liability or small tasks that still require human judgment will keep with human drivers for a good long while yet. Fuel Trucks delivering to local gas stations, septic trucks and heating oil trucks that have to find a port in every person's yard, etc...

I do wonder whether the amount of stuff that falls off the back of the truck will go up or down. Less oversight of the stuff, but less chance for a driver to be in collusion with the people who fall things off the back of trucks.

But can reopen.

Think plaster walls and ceilings. You can repair cracks, but just get new ones.

Chisel it into stone tablets, then find an ignorant local. Set up a natural gas line to a nearby bush and hide behind a rock. Cub your hands to add a slight reverb effect and tell him to preach the chiselled word, then break the tablets and hide them in a box and trick nazis into looking at them.